I do enjoy these surveys of politicians by politicians. The joys of percentages mean small numbers of people can appear as hugely significant masses of opinion.
So Edwina Hart is the "top performer" chosen by 25 per cent of the 30 people sampled by the pollsters (I make that eight).
Lower down the popularity chain, Nick Bourne, Ieuan Wyn Jones and Jocelyn Davies have the support of four per cent - if my maths is correct that means two AMs each rated them.
The consolation for Professor Bourne, Mr Jones and Ms Davies is that they are twice as popular as Nick Ramsay and Jenny Randerson, who were named by two per cent of those asked - I make that one AM each.
The consolation for Mr Ramsay and Mrs Randerson is that still makes them more popular than 49 other AMs, who didn't make the IPSOS-Mori first eleven.
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Friday, 20 November 2009
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Family-friendly values
"Making your spouse your secretary is the best way to avoid the disruption and heartache of making your secretary your spouse."
That advice, from the Newport West Labour MP Paul Flynn, has been taken by more than a few MPs.
It's estimated that around 200 employ relatives, be they spouses, nieces, or parents.
Fourteen of the 40 Welsh MPs currently employ staff who are related to them and will presumably be caught in the new rules proposed by Sir Christopher Kelly. You can read the full list here.
Plaid Cymru's three MPs do not feature on the list. As their parliamentary leader, Elfyn Llwyd, puts it: "We have had a policy that we have never employed members of our families."
That policy, he says, is party-wide, dates from 1993, and applies also to members of the Welsh Assembly.
That may be news to two of the party's Assembly Members, Mohammad Asghar and Jocelyn Davies, the latter a deputy Housing Minister in Cardiff.
According to the latest register of AMs' interests, each of them employs their spouses part-time in constituency offices.
Perhaps they were unaware of established party rules. Either way, they are likely to be the last Plaid Cymru politicians to keep it in the family. The party has accepted unanimously new rules that AMs "should not henceforward make any new appointments of family members."
That advice, from the Newport West Labour MP Paul Flynn, has been taken by more than a few MPs.
It's estimated that around 200 employ relatives, be they spouses, nieces, or parents.
Fourteen of the 40 Welsh MPs currently employ staff who are related to them and will presumably be caught in the new rules proposed by Sir Christopher Kelly. You can read the full list here.
Plaid Cymru's three MPs do not feature on the list. As their parliamentary leader, Elfyn Llwyd, puts it: "We have had a policy that we have never employed members of our families."
That policy, he says, is party-wide, dates from 1993, and applies also to members of the Welsh Assembly.
That may be news to two of the party's Assembly Members, Mohammad Asghar and Jocelyn Davies, the latter a deputy Housing Minister in Cardiff.
According to the latest register of AMs' interests, each of them employs their spouses part-time in constituency offices.
Perhaps they were unaware of established party rules. Either way, they are likely to be the last Plaid Cymru politicians to keep it in the family. The party has accepted unanimously new rules that AMs "should not henceforward make any new appointments of family members."
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Willy-waving
It's an academic debate over a policy no-one seems to want to introduce.
But don't let that put you off the latest spat between MPs and Welsh Assembly Members.
The Welsh Assembly Government wants the power to scrap the right to buy council housing.
But it doesn't want to actually scrap the right to buy. Do keep up.
The Assembly Government wants to suspend the right to buy in some areas.
But to do that it is requesting wider powers that would allow Ministers to abolish the scheme.
MPs - whose approval is needed before any transfer of power - are not happy. At least, members of Parliament's Welsh affairs committee are not.
Their report says the Assembly Government should drop its request for wider powers or the order granting them should be blocked.
The (Plaid Cymru) deputy Housing Minister Jocelyn Davies says the committee can scrutinise but the Assembly will decide.
The Liberal Democrat housing spokesman Peter Black has accused the MPs of trying to dictate housing policy from Westminster.
The MPs say they are trying to be helpful.
Although one committee member did confide in me his analysis of the conflict: "It's willy-waving, basically"
But don't let that put you off the latest spat between MPs and Welsh Assembly Members.
The Welsh Assembly Government wants the power to scrap the right to buy council housing.
But it doesn't want to actually scrap the right to buy. Do keep up.
The Assembly Government wants to suspend the right to buy in some areas.
But to do that it is requesting wider powers that would allow Ministers to abolish the scheme.
MPs - whose approval is needed before any transfer of power - are not happy. At least, members of Parliament's Welsh affairs committee are not.
Their report says the Assembly Government should drop its request for wider powers or the order granting them should be blocked.
The (Plaid Cymru) deputy Housing Minister Jocelyn Davies says the committee can scrutinise but the Assembly will decide.
The Liberal Democrat housing spokesman Peter Black has accused the MPs of trying to dictate housing policy from Westminster.
The MPs say they are trying to be helpful.
Although one committee member did confide in me his analysis of the conflict: "It's willy-waving, basically"
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